SDN Pharmacy Salary Survey Interest

[Amicable Angora]

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Salary: $105,000
Geo: Georgia
Practice: Hospital
years of experience: 2 years
bonus: 4 years vacation (5 at 5 years, 6 at 10), okay 403b matching, free health insurance for myself (technically $5 a year). Around 4% raises a year.

The major upside is a free 1% (of average of highest paid 5 years) pension for each year worked up to 25 years.

Fairly low salary, but hopefully the low COL and benefits make up for it.

That 4% raise is going to build up, don't worry!

 

[Amicable Angora]

Would you like to buy a house here? lol

I’m even with a lot of you, keep that in mind. Don’t let the top line # fool you!

I think there was a story about an RN that would commute to work from Las Vegas (or Arizona) via airplane into SF and it was still cheaper than living here.

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What about rent/housing during the work days in California?

 

[jjcayce123]

I work staffing 7 on 7 off at a 400+ bed hospital in central Virginia. I make just under 115K per year with 7 hours of vacation earned per bi weekly pay period. I ran numbers through a cost of living salary calculator and 115k where I am now I would need to make 250k in San Fran area and over 300k in NYC. So while 190k only 6 years out might sound like a lot...its really not. It depends on where you live and the cost of living there. Im only 1 year out

 

[confettiflyer]

What about rent/housing during the work days in California?

Same as airline folks, just rent a room in a flop house for cheap. Math still pans out it seems. I have plenty of coworkers who would rent me a room if I ever did this (I wouldn’t).


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[TheBlaah]

shoot that pension is way better then the VA one I get. I get 1% that I pay in 4.4% of after tax money.

Dang. That may not even be worth it if you invest it on your own and the interest grows decently. Or you die young.

 

[Amicable Angora]

Same as airline folks, just rent a room in a flop house for cheap. Math still pans out it seems. I have plenty of coworkers who would rent me a room if I ever did this (I wouldn’t).


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What is the best resource for finding and renting flophouses?

 

[rxdawg21]

Dang. That may not even be worth it if you invest it on your own and the interest grows decently. Or you die young.

I know...they want to make us pay even more too, I wish they would let us opt out and put their portion into my tsp (401k). This is all after tax money (my portion) to so I could put this in a Roth IRA and it would take me 20-25 years Just for my pension to break even assuming a 7% return. And of course nothing is left to heirs. And if I remember correctly that wasn’t calculating the return on my money after retiring just drawing it down at 0%. Of course when I get my pension the majority of it will be taxed